No sound from my HP Laptop

Vercelletto · Jan 20th 2013, 4:39pm

I turn on my laptop this morning and no sound is being produced. Not from Youtube, iTunes, videos, nothing. The green bar is going up and down under volume, but the speakers are not emitting any sound. Same thing when I plug in headphones. It was working fine last night.

Does anyone have a fix for this?

RDCF · Jan 20th 2013, 4:51pm

Try update the sound card drivers, even though it looks more like a hardware problem.

Ghukek · Jan 20th 2013, 5:14pm

Plug some headphones in and see if they work.

Vercelletto · Jan 20th 2013, 8:01pm

Ghukek wrote:

Plug some headphones in and see if they work.

Nope, nothing. I tried reinstalling my drivers, updating them, restarting my computer multiple times. Nothing works. My computer has shut down twice because of apparent "overheating" problems, the computer got too hot so it shut itself down. I don't know how though because it is on my desk, away from any heat sources. The vents are not blocked so I don't know what the problem is. I have a feeling my sound card has failed from the apparent "overheating".

RDCF · Jan 20th 2013, 8:11pm

In the device manager everything appears as alright?

Astroboy · Jan 20th 2013, 10:24pm

Try a hard BIOS reset.

Ghukek · Jan 21st 2013, 6:55am

Laptops generally have a problem with over heating and it seems like your theory is possibly correct. Try vacuuming it out. The fans are probably dust clogged. The problem is that if the sound card has been broken from over heating, it's done for. You can get a usb audio port online for a few bucks.

Vercelletto · Jan 24th 2013, 3:12pm

RDCF wrote:

In the device manager everything appears as alright?

Yeah as far as I can tell

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Andrew_Wiggin wrote:

Try a hard BIOS reset.

Could you provide instructions?

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Andrew_Wiggin wrote:

Try a hard BIOS reset.

Ghukek wrote:

Laptops generally have a problem with over heating and it seems like your theory is possibly correct. Try vacuuming it out. The fans are probably dust clogged. The problem is that if the sound card has been broken from over heating, it's done for. You can get a usb audio port online for a few bucks.

How would I go about vacuuming them out? and if the sound card is done for what does a USB audio port do?

Ghukek · Jan 24th 2013, 3:17pm

Well just take a vacuum cleaner and use a brush attachment and just press it against the fan slits.

The usb audio adapter like this one will plug into a usb port and then the computer is going to send the audio out of the usb into the audio adapter which will then put it out into headphones.

Also, I'm not sure that a hard bios reset is going to do anything. I'll look into it for you though.

Vercelletto · Jan 25th 2013, 12:52am

Ghukek wrote:

Well just take a vacuum cleaner and use a brush attachment and just press it against the fan slits.

The usb audio adapter like this one will plug into a usb port and then the computer is going to send the audio out of the usb into the audio adapter which will then put it out into headphones.

Also, I'm not sure that a hard bios reset is going to do anything. I'll look into it for you though.

Thanks, looks good! I will look into it! I appreciate the help

Ghukek · Jan 25th 2013, 5:59am

Don't do a hard bios reset...

Vercelletto · Jan 25th 2013, 4:50pm

Ghukek wrote:

Don't do a hard bios reset...

Haha alright, gotcha. Thanks!

Ghukek · Jan 27th 2013, 1:43am

Go with this one if you're just going to leave it in the usb port. A negative review says that it broke after repeated removing and replacing... if you want a cheap option, go for this one. If you want a reliable one, go for the previous one. I'm reasonably positive that that's the best solution to your problem.

Vercelletto · Jan 27th 2013, 3:21pm

Ghukek wrote:

Go with this one if you're just going to leave it in the usb port. A negative review says that it broke after repeated removing and replacing... if you want a cheap option, go for this one. If you want a reliable one, go for the previous one. I'm reasonably positive that that's the best solution to your problem.

I will give the previous one a shot. I will report back and see if it works.

Vercelletto · Jan 27th 2013, 11:39pm

My sound has magically come back.........well then. There we go.

Vercelletto · Jan 28th 2013, 3:42pm

And it is gone again. Fuck.

Ghukek · Jan 28th 2013, 4:32pm

Hmmm, at least the sound card isn't completely broken. Let me get back to you on that.

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